But such people, too, are an endangered
species as robot cooks are on the march around the world.
Not exact matches
Soon, only
robots will be clean enough to run for office, and our fate
as a
species will at long last be sealed.
20 Hans Moravec, founder of Carnegie Mellon's RoboticsInstitute, predicts that
robots will emerge
as their own
species by2040.
He and graduate student Enik» Kubinyi, both at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, contacted Kaplan, and from this meeting arose a series of AIBO - dog experiments with the dual goals of using the real dogs to help them discover better ways to program the
robot and using the
robot to help them explore the dogs»
species recognition: What makes a dog recognize another dog
as a dog?
In addition to exposing the intricacies of
species recognition and communication,
robots can be used to investigate predator - prey relationships,
as well
as attack responses and mating habits in mammals, insects, and birds.
And there's already a new
species of quadrupeds on the rise: A vanguard of four - legged military
robots, BigDogs and WildCats (developed by Labs such
as BostonDynamics), can already be watched practicing their jumps on YouTube.